[mesebrec]

Amazing project! It's incredibly well engineered, imo.

It's really nice to read the author's blogposts describing how he forces hardware vendors to get their shit together and either use a standardized update mechanism or create a thoroughly tested open source plugin.

I remember the first time I got a Dell laptop and put Ubuntu on it, GNOME Software immediately prompted me to install a firmware update. I was so amazed by this. It really felt like Ubuntu was finally a first-class citizen. I'm still completely sold on Dell because of this experience. Sadly they still don't upload all the firmware for all machines. I have no idea why though..

[hughsient]

blush -- my blog is https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/ for the important stuff, and https://mastodon.social/@hughsie is for the inane stuff.

[bombcar]

Some firmware they may only have reduced redistribution rights to. A modern computer is a giant ball of firmware from many different vendors.

Hence things like Linux firmware updaters that just download the windows firmware file (which they have rights to) and extracting the firmware blob (which they know exactly where it is) so they can avoid the question if they can distribute the blob directly.

[vondur]

Firmware for Dell computers are also offered via the Windows update software. It’s still cool that it works with Linux too.